Kohta Takahashi is best known for his work on Namco games, including multiple Ridge Racer and Klonoa titles, as well as Ace Combat 2 and the console version of Tekken 5.
10 Facts About Kohta Takahashi
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Kohta Takahashi later became interested in video games and their music, where he programmed his compositions on various computers.
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Originally, Kohta Takahashi had aimed to enter the game industry as a programmer, but he decided to send demo tapes of his college music work to Namco, whose games he had enjoyed since childhood.
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Kohta Takahashi wanted the music to be "stimulating" and intense to convey a sense of anxiety, while making sure it had a distinct flare.
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Kohta Takahashi found Hiroshi Okubo, the game's sound director, to be "the gatekeeper to club sound hell" as he frequently rejected his contributions due to them not fitting his musical direction.
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Kohta Takahashi subsequently served as the sound director and lead composer of Ridge Racer V, released in 2000.
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Kohta Takahashi was initially asked to write Hollywood-inspired music, but decided to mix elements of electronic.
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Kohta Takahashi was contacted by Makoto Asada of Cave to contribute an arrangement to DoDonPachi DaiOuJou Arrange Album, and accepted the gig but decided that if fans did not take notice of it, he would permanently leave the field of video game music.
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Ito handled composition and arrangement for all tracks, while Kohta Takahashi handled sound design, guitar playing and mixing for roughly half of the soundtrack.
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Since the 2010s, Kohta Takahashi has published various solo albums of original music, including Core and Everyone, both consisting of tracks he composed in the early 2000s.